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1. Building forts. 2. Painting! 3. Reading books... in forts. 4. Snuggling. 5. Grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. 6. Baking sweet treats. 7. Calling faraway friends to chat. 8. Tea. 9. Soul-searching. 10. Doodling. 11. Puddle jumping! 12. Finding money in the pocket of your raincoat from last Spring.

None there? Hide a few dollars to "find" next year. 13. Making bread. From scratch. 14. Drawing on the windows with dry erase markers. 15. Playing with stickers! 16. Whipping up a batch of homemade play dough. 17. Trying new things! 18. Designing your own board game. 19. Drawing comics.

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20. Starting a blog. 21. Taking a nap. 22. Impromptu puppet shows. 23. Puzzles. 24. Living room dance parties. 25. Building with blocks. 26. Filming silly videos. 27. Making your own instruments. 28. Taking a long bath. 29. Daydreaming. 30. Beading necklaces. 31. Homemade "lava lamps". 32. Play dress-up! 33. Hide and seek. 34. Recording your own audio books. 35. Indoor picnics. 36. Building an obstacle course. 37. Back your bags and go on a pretend airplane trip. 38. Carpet golf. 39. Scrapbooking.

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40. Writing your own cookbook. 41. Indoor carnivals. 42. Air-popped popcorn. 43. Making a target range for marshmallow shooters. 44. Building a cardboard city. 45. Designing murals made with sticky notes. 46. Playing hopscotch indoors. 47. Charades. 48. Sensory bins! 49. Recycle old crayons into new ones. 50. Suminagashi Painting 51. Find a laundry basket -- Turn it into your favorite mode of

transportation. We love boats and hot air balloons. 52. Make Your Own Sunshine -- When Mother Nature doesn't

cooperate, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. 53. Create Some Modern Art ? A fun and easy way to brighten up an otherwise rainy day. 54. Homemade Rhythm Set -- Fun for kids of all ages!!

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55. Play Dough Bakery -- Make some treats that are (almost) good enough to eat.

56. Build a Flower Shop -- A large cardboard box and some fake flowers from the dollar store can be made into a great flower shop for lots of pretend play fun!

57. Fun with Googly Eyes ? Have some googly eyes and old magazines on-hand? Make some silly photo "enhancements".

58. Rainbow Village -- Use our free printable template to make your own rainbow village. Use bits of velcro to hold the houses together and you can build and re-build your village again and again!

59. No-Mess Marbled Painting -- A fun, quick, and easy project with hardly any clean-up!

60. Make Giant Sunflowers from empty oatmeal canisters!! -- So bright and cheerful!

61. Create an Easy Spring Mural with Sticky Notes! -- A quick way to add some cheer to your home!

62. Make Our Own Scratch n Sniff Paint -- Display a gallery of sweet smelling fruit paintings in your home. This is our favorite use for powdered drink mix!

63. Build a Marble Run from Recyclables -- Lots of fun!!

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64. Animal Hospital -- Write prescriptions, apply bandages, and give out plenty of pillows for all those stuffed animals who are not feeling well.

65. Wipe-off markers on a cheap shower curtain liner makes a great reuseable art mat. Afterwards, put in the washing machine (cold, gentle cycle), hang to dry, and reuse over and over again!

66. Once the rain is done, we LOVE to splash in puddles!!! 67. Make bird feeders from recyclables 68. Race paper airplanes 69. Indoor "snowball" fight with balled up socks. 70. Have a beach day. In the living room. 71. Hot Cocoa Bar 72. Read lots of stories 73. Make a pot of homemade soup and read storybooks about

soup while you wait for it to simmer. 74. Build a mini movie theater for stuffed animals 75. Make a beautiful window display 76. Make your own paint 77. Fill up some busy bags 78. Make a shadow puppet theater

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79. Paint up some story stones and take turns telling stories 80. Open a pretend pizzeria 81. Make smoothies and drink them up with silly mustache straws 82. Make your own cherry blossoms 83. Have a birthday party for your favorite teddy bear 84. Open a pretend ice cream shop ? bring in a container of snow for

"ice cream" 85. Newspaper play structures 86. Marshmallow and toothpick sculptures 87. Write a letter or put together a package for a faraway friend 88. Do puzzles together 89. Paint with water on a chalkboard 90. Take a mini-vacation without leaving your house 91. Living room dance party 92. Make friendship necklace kits to give to friends 93. Create an awesome remote 94. Make an easy fishing game 95. Bake cookies together 96. Make Homemade Galaxy Dough

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97. Tissue Paper Flowers -- My kids love to make these colorful tissue paper flowers, but they love giving them to friends even more!

98. Handmade Cards -- Why not surprise your friends with a lovely handmade card? These were made as a very low-mess craft!

99. Kiss Flip Book -- Another great project you can do with the kids is a pocket flip book of kisses! It's small enough to fit in your friend's pocket as the perfect little reminder of how much your friend is loved.

100.Chocolate Covered Pretzels -- A sweet treat that even the littlest "bakers" can help to make!

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